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New Milestone

While I slept last night my blog pageviews passed the 20,000 mark.  Considering the number was not quite 6,000 pageviews last October and 10,000 in December this is no small feat (at least IMHO)!




There are a few lessons I've learned along the way:
  1. Pick the title of the post well.  If it is succinct and accurate even I can find what I'm looking for quickly so others should be able to do so as well.
  2. Select topics for posts that have wide interest.  When I wrote the post about yarn winders and yarn swifts I had no idea how interested people would be.  It is the second most read post I've ever written and says nothing about either of these yarn tools.  (BTW The Dachshund remains #1 by a very large margin.) 
  3. The unusual uses for knitting seem to be very popular and are viewed regularly.  Yarn taxidermy, Sci Fi in Yarn and the U 900 posts are all big draws.
  4. It helps to have over 200 posts out there in cyberspace.  One is likely to have a winner or two just because the odds are in your favor.  So I'll just keep writing.  
It is gratifying to search for topics and be able to find your own blog.  Not that recognition had anything to do with my blogging, it is just nice to know perhaps people other than friends and family find something I write worth looking at from time to time.
  
So to celebrate I thought I'd share this yarny video called Little Yarn in the Big City created by Lorna's Laces, a hand-dyed yarn maker in Chicago.  You'll recognize it is the Windy City by the lions in front of the Art Institute or the Bean, aka Cloud Gate, in Millennium Park, or the "L" ride.  So click on the link above and smile your way to a variegated orange ball of  yarn.  You'll be making a 75 second investment.

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